A colleague at work called me up today, asking for guidance on how to best access the Internet in China. Not having been to China (hint to anyone who’d like to foot the bill), I scrambled while I had him on the phone to provide him with some solutions.

Fortunately, I recalled Wes Fryer’s travailsin China and googled that. Some of the solutions that came up–which will surely get this blog banned by school districts, so enjoy it while you can–included the following:

Virtual Private NetworkImportant for protecting logins and passwords you enter in while using public WiFi hotspots (not a bad thing to do anywhere you happen to be with “sniffers” out there ready to grab your info):